Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Steffen Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I don't want to issue the information all over the campus, and I don't want to the reconfigure the server each time I want to install a host. I have no idea how to solve both problems currently. Starting with version 4.2b, our Linux boot disk

compiling linux boot disk (was Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released)

2004-07-26 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: 2nd try. I've downloaded all files on one host, moved the files to another one and compiled. The result is: ranlib ../lib/libncurses++.a cd ../obj_s; /usr/bin/g++ -I../c++ -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-07-26 Thread imdos
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: I take it you cannot set option 233 on your DHCP server? Well, I don't want to issue the information all over the campus, and I don't want to the reconfigure the server each time I want to install a host. I have no idea how to solve both

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-07-20 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Hello, I'm trying to compile the linuxboot disk: $ make download $ make [... stuff ...] mkdir -p stage1/usr/sbin/ ; cp -f dmidecode-2.4/dmidecode stage1/usr/sbin/dmidecode.tmp ; strip stage1/usr/sbin/dmidecode.tmp ; mv stage1/usr/sbin/dmidecode.tmp

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-07-20 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Steffen Kaiser wrote: The reason is that and are symlinks to itself. Um missing the actual directories :-( They are: dosemu-20040606 - ./dosemu-20040606 glibc-20040606 - ./glibc-20040606 Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser --- This

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-07-20 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Steffen Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Hello, I'm trying to compile the linuxboot disk: $ make download $ make [... stuff ...] mkdir -p stage1/usr/sbin/ ; cp -f dmidecode-2.4/dmidecode stage1/usr/sbin/dmidecode.tmp ; strip

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-06-21 Thread Russell Smith
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:19 pm, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Russell Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this is a terrible question to ask, but is there a timeframe for dropping support for dos booting? Are you for or against the idea? :-) Well, I am sort of begging to be pro dropping the

[Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-06-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Apart from minor bugfixes, most changes are in the Linux boot disk. We added MySQL client libraries and the DBI and DBD::mysql Perl modules. I have no MySQL database handy with which to test; if you do, please give it a try. I look forward to your feedback. The 2.6.7 Linux kernel might provide

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-06-17 Thread Russell Smith
I know this is a terrible question to ask, but is there a timeframe for dropping support for dos booting? On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 04:06 am, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Apart from minor bugfixes, most changes are in the Linux boot disk. We added MySQL client libraries and the DBI and DBD::mysql

Re: [Unattended] Unattended 4.3 released

2004-06-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Russell Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this is a terrible question to ask, but is there a timeframe for dropping support for dos booting? Are you for or against the idea? :-) No, I have not given any thought to ditching the DOS boot disk. It requires little maintenance and it is not